Exploring the Relationship between Workplace Happiness and Employee Performance in the Public Sector of UAE

Running head: DOCTORATE RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Doctorate Research Proposal
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Table of Contents
1. INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................3
1.1 Introduction......................................................................................................................3
1.2 Background......................................................................................................................3
1.3 Research Objectives.........................................................................................................5
1.4 Research Questions..........................................................................................................5
2. LITERATURE REVIEW.......................................................................................................6
2.1 Introduction......................................................................................................................6
2.2 Workplace Happiness.......................................................................................................6
2.2.1 Workplace Happiness: Meaning and Definitions.....................................................6
2.2.2 Factors contributing to Workplace Happiness..........................................................7
2.3 Employee Performances...................................................................................................9
2.3.1 Employee Performances: Definitions and Meanings................................................9
2.3.2 Factors affecting employee performance................................................................10
2.4 Relationship between Workplace Happiness and Employee Performance....................10
2.5 Happiness Mission in the UAE......................................................................................11
2.6 Literature Gap................................................................................................................11
3. Research Methodology.........................................................................................................11
3.1 Research Approach and Design.....................................................................................11
3.2 Research Method............................................................................................................12

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3.3 Data Collection and Analysis.........................................................................................12
3.4 Ethical Consideration.....................................................................................................12
4. Outcomes..............................................................................................................................13
5. Research Timeline................................................................................................................14
References................................................................................................................................15

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1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Introduction
The global business and commercial framework, over the decades, has undergone
immense changes and dynamics and has increasingly become more integrated, inclusive and
inter-connected, much of which can be attributed to the factors like that of Globalisation,
Trade Liberalisation and inherent technological as well as infrastructural innovations in
different countries with time (Kapoor and Sherif 2012).
To stay competitive, in the contemporary global framework, the businesses require to
increase their operational and productive efficiencies, to stay profitable and sustainable in the
long run. A considerable share of the profitability and sustainability of any business
organization, depends on the performance and productivity of its productive resources, of
which the labour resources or the employees form the most significant ones (J. Cole, Oliver
and Blaviesciunaite 2014). The performance of the employees, in turn, depends on several
factors, of which one of the most significant ones is that of the overall level of happiness and
satisfaction in their workplaces.
Keeping this into consideration, the concerned research proposes to explore and
discuss the aspects of workplace happiness and employee performance and the relationships
existing between these two phenomena, in the light of the public sector of one of the most
impressively developed economies, of that of the United Arab Emirates, taking into account
the Happiness Mission which has been recently taken up by the government of the country, to
ensure an overall happy and productive population.
1.2 Background
As discussed above, in the contemporary period, with the dynamics in the lives of
people increasing, both in personal as well as professional aspects, with a comparatively fast